Using AI is great if you have already developed critical thinking skills. When you're just learning how to think, how to reason, how to have common sense, it's gonna get in the way.
Calculators are great, but it's still important to learn arithmetic.
>> A school can deploy a tutor that is explicitly built never to give the answer — one that asks the Socratic follow-up, that requires the child to show the next step, that reports back to the teacher which concepts the class is stuck on.0
Fully agree with the article.
IMO we will just see more divide over those who are capable and those who are not.
The capable ones will use AI learning to accelerate their learning.
And the incapable ones will do as they always have: not much.
> IMO we will just see more divide over those who are capable and those who are not.
Under what premise? Prompting? Schools, at K-12 levels, barely have curriculum for anything focused in tech. Information, disinformation, security, privacy, algorithms, etc.
Based on your latter comment you seem to imply there's nothing outside the realm of AI moving forward. That's a pretty dim and uninformed perspective, at least IMO.
I'd argue all of the kids growing up immersed in social media and cheating their way through with AI are going to be the ones not doing much of anything in the future.
I guess if your goal is to expand the welfare state then AI is great at the earliest of ages!
Using AI is great if you have already developed critical thinking skills. When you're just learning how to think, how to reason, how to have common sense, it's gonna get in the way.
Calculators are great, but it's still important to learn arithmetic.
>> A school can deploy a tutor that is explicitly built never to give the answer — one that asks the Socratic follow-up, that requires the child to show the next step, that reports back to the teacher which concepts the class is stuck on.0
Fully agree with the article.
IMO we will just see more divide over those who are capable and those who are not.
The capable ones will use AI learning to accelerate their learning.
And the incapable ones will do as they always have: not much.
> IMO we will just see more divide over those who are capable and those who are not.
Under what premise? Prompting? Schools, at K-12 levels, barely have curriculum for anything focused in tech. Information, disinformation, security, privacy, algorithms, etc.
Based on your latter comment you seem to imply there's nothing outside the realm of AI moving forward. That's a pretty dim and uninformed perspective, at least IMO.
I'd argue all of the kids growing up immersed in social media and cheating their way through with AI are going to be the ones not doing much of anything in the future.
I guess if your goal is to expand the welfare state then AI is great at the earliest of ages!